Lambton Harbour and Mount Victoria from the Tinakore.
Creator
Date Created
1840
Identifier
Hocken Pictorial Collections - 12,792
a11607
Description
Ray Hargreaves disputes that this is the first litho & Ellis notes: see Park, The village of Richmond 2/11/04: A NOTE RE: THE LITHOGRAPHERS
An article in the New Zealand Gazette dated June 12, 1841 on page 3, column 1 reads:
'A plan of the harbour is now on sale at our Office, price two shillings and sixpence. It is very neatly lithographed, and does its authors, Messrs Jones and Bluett, great credit...Mr. Jones and Mr. Bluett have since lithographed a plan of Wades town, and a view of the harbour from the Tinakori hill...'
An article in the New Zealand Gazette dated June 12, 1841 on page 3, column 1 reads:
'A plan of the harbour is now on sale at our Office, price two shillings and sixpence. It is very neatly lithographed, and does its authors, Messrs Jones and Bluett, great credit...Mr. Jones and Mr. Bluett have since lithographed a plan of Wades town, and a view of the harbour from the Tinakori hill...'
Margin below image in pencil: 1839; on label in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: This & the “Chart of Port Nicholson, New Zealand” is the first lithographic work done in N.Z. Captain William Mein Smith, the NZ Co’s principal surveyor, drew them in 1839-40. T.M. Hocken.
Contributor
Bluett, Thomas (Lithographer)
Jones, Jacob (Lithographer)
Format
Relief prints
Lithographs
Extent
186 x 260 mm; on paper: 227 x 298 mm
Temporal Coverage
Provenance
Dr T.M. Hocken’s Collection.
Genre
Landscapes & Cityscapes
Files
Collection
Citation
Smith, William Mein, 1797-1869, “Lambton Harbour and Mount Victoria from the Tinakore.,” ourheritage.ac.nz | OUR Heritage, accessed November 22, 2024, https://ourheritage.ac.nz/items/show/4572.